🎯 Are you ready to take your project engineering leadership skills to the next level? We have an exciting opportunity for you! Zeppelin Labs is seeking a talented project engineering lead to join their team and contribute to building disruptive digital experiences that delight users and accelerate business growth.
⚠️ Requirements:
◽ Have an engineering background/ degree.
◽ Have direct experience managing projects, including budget administration, scope management, and quality assurance for at least one year.
◽ Enjoy leadership roles and are eager to continue developing in that area.
✅ Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for product engineering, focused on "how to build the product?"
◽ Apply the defined methodology and process for the delivery track in all project/product lifecycle stages, ensuring that best practices are followed and adapted to the team and project context.
◽ Coordinate the different roles within the construction team and support technical leaders (Technical lead, UI designer lead, UX designer Lead, etc.).
◽ Engineering and construction: from implementing the UI to code construction, system architecture, quality assurance, production deployment, etc.
◽ Delivery roadmap, not the product roadmap.
◽ Planning required for product construction, such as release plans.
2. Servant leader of the team
◽ Encourage team growth, ensuring they face new challenges that they can overcome and avoiding stagnation.
◽ Protect the team from over committing to external stakeholder requests that go against the working philosophy.
◽ Ensure good communication between the entire team and project stakeholders.
◽ Maintain and foster team motivation.
◽ Propose ways to remove team blockers when they arise.
◽ Guide the team to improve group performance, promoting teamwork, multidisciplinary work, and continuous improvement.
◽ Ensure good internal team communication.
◽ Assist in conflict resolution and problem-solving within the team.
◽ Responsible for providing the team with the means to execute the project and build the product.
◽ Coordinate with operations to secure the necessary resources for product construction, such as team members, services, and other elements.
3. Coordination and teamwork with the product manager
◽ Coordinate to determine "when to build": Product roadmaps and delivery plans, for example.
◽ Collaborate to define specifications and provide context for what needs to be built based on discoveries made in the discovery phase.
◽ Participate in communications with the Product Manager and various stakeholders.
◽ Jointly monitor and control budget, risks, administrative work (e.g., month-end closures), and project control.
◽ Jointly responsible for continuously improving what is built, the methodology, processes, and the team.
4. Stay updated on digital product construction and software engineering
◽ Continuously stay informed about methodologies, tools, processes, dynamics, etc., and everything that aids in constructing digital products.
◽ Monitor leading digital products and software engineering experts to continuously incorporate learnings from their contributions.
◽ Proactively support other Engineer Managers at Zeppelin and the community, assisting them in constructing their products.
